Posts by carthell

1) Message boards : Questions : rosariostrano (Message 917) Posted 17 Jan 2022 by carthell Post: Science United maintains the listing of projects that your computer may participate. It is my impression that there is no setting on your computer or Science United account that controls the listing of the projects.
2) Message boards : Questions : How do I tell the Linux version of Boinc which disk to use? (Message 916) Posted 17 Jan 2022 by carthell Post: This s going to be a little bit messy, I'll give it a shot: Assuming you're running some type of Linux, this is the easiest way (via a shell command window): https://askubuntu.com/questions/117309/how-can-i-install-any-package-in-a-particular-directory-with-apt-get#:~:text=You%20can%20use%20dpkg%20instead%20of%20apt-get%20which,--instdir%3Ddestdir%20where%20destdir%20is%20your%20desired%20installation%20directory. -Otherwise, you'll have to move the BOINC directory to your new device ("mv" command on Linux), and set a symbolic link to the new location where BOINC was originally installed on your device. Something like this: $ cd <directory that contains the BOINC folder, wherever that is on your device> $ mv ./<BOINC folder> <target device/directory> $ ln -s <old BOINC folder name> <target device/directory> The massive drawback concerning manually linking the BOINC directory to a new device is that the program or a project task may look for files in certain places, and may throw errors if the BOINC program or project tasks can't find what it needs because of the move. If you run into such a situation, you'll have to manually poke around in the BOINC directory's configuration files and see what directory settings need to be changed. Similar (and potentially cleaner) results can also be obtained through uninstalling BOINC (if necessary), executing the mount(8) command, then re-installing BOINC. See "https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man8/mount.8.html". It may also be necessary to use the "sudo" or "su" command in combination with the above commands if the account that you're using on your Raspberry Pi doesn't have the privileges to read and/or write to the USB drive and the location of the BOINC installation.
3) Message boards : Questions : Project Private Message (Message 915) Posted 17 Jan 2022 by carthell Post: It is not my impression that any of the "private messages" are directed to individual users. When I first joined Science United, I received (and still receive) private message notifications from various projects. When I created an account and logged into the project web site, I saw nothing. Since Science United puts volunteers into (large) computing pools, I've concluded that the messages are actually for the Science United project pool manager's account, not the volunteers. I ignore the notices.